Our laws no longer shelter us from gambling . . . they only isolate us from its revenue.For the past several years the pari-mutuel horse and greyhound racing industries have supported a change in our…

On March 30, there was a special board meeting in the high school library to discuss administrative contracts. The room was packed with concerned parents/citizens for the administrative positions the board must make decisions on.…

While debate raged over the public option (which was defeated) and taxpayer-supported abortion (never saw the light of day), dozens of pages were added to the massive bill designed to keep Americans healthier. Here are…

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens says he must “fish or cut bait.” Fishing, we take it, means staying a while longer on the nation’s highest court. The alternative is to retire.“The president and the…

I must confess, I am confused about commercial real estate values in lola. On one side is the county appraiser who was reported in the Register March 18 as saying that appraisals for land in…

When referring to health care, “Repeal and Replace” is a great starting point for Republicans in the upcoming elections. Fifty-four percent of Americans oppose this plan, 45 percent strongly oppose it. Only 26 percent strongly…

Controversy in the medical community over a huge expansion in the use of a statin drug sheds interesting light on the use of statistics.AstraZeneca, the manufacturer of Crestor, commissioned a study to determine if those…

David Tepper’s hedge fund earned him $4 billion last year, to rank him first at the top of 25 fund managers who earn-ed, collectively, more than $25 billion in fees and investment gains.Tepper’s individual earnings…

  Tom Friedman wants “a tea party of the radical center.” He starts by saying the current political system is broken, then defines the term: “…My definition of broken is simple. It is a system…

Iolans will go to the polls Tuesday to express their collective opinion on the size our city’s governing body should be.Over the past two weeks the Register has published articles in which proponents ar-gued that…